THEFT BY POSTMAN
DETENTION IN BORSTAL (P.A.) NEW PLYMOUTH April 24. A suggestion that it might have been an error for the Post and Telegraph Department to have trusted mails to anyone as young as the defendant was made in the New Plymouth Court by Mr. P. Grey, counsel for Erie Leslie Rudings, 18-year-old postman, who having pleaded guilty on Monday to the theft of a registered package and contents of £7 15s, appeared for sentence.
“If mail is to be protected it will be protected by having older people deliver it,” Mr. Grey said. Stating that he was unable to consider probation, Mr. W. H. Woodward, S.M., directed that the accused be placed in the Borstal Institute for not less than a year.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22621, 26 April 1948, Page 5
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124THEFT BY POSTMAN Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22621, 26 April 1948, Page 5
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